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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1882
Page
3
Reading of the thermometer data for Warren Pennsylvania from Variety Hall. Entries show daily readings with dates in April and temperatures at 12m 6 P.M and 10 P.M. Includes multiple days and varying highs and lows within late April.
A fragment from a Warren Pennsylvania page blends seasons and day notices. The robin views a chilly spring while Old Zero peers at snow and a parade of flakes. Local items list meetings sales and upcoming events for Tuesday and surrounding days with ads for goods and services.
A meeting of Warren and vicinity veterans is set for Saturday evening May 6 in I Company armory to arrange proper Decoration Day observance. Full attendance is invited.
Use Wells' Tooth Paste. L. G. Neyss, Druggist. Baby Carriages at A. A. Davis & Co.'s. McNett & Co. advertise the largest stock of furniture ever in Warren at bottom prices on Hickory street. Wanted: competent person for general housework apply at Miss Merrill's.
Judge McDermitt fills Judge Brown's pulpit this week. Locals share notes on job moves, travels, and marriages. Roman Schnur is now Justice, with others sworn in May. Readers send greetings and jokes as community life unfolds in Warren and nearby towns.
The article details water infrastructure progress from Slabtown to Conewango with pipe work on Third and High streets and a completed island station. It also prints the 1882 annual water rates for dwellings stores offices stables building purposes and public buildings with per room fixtures and per stall charges and special rates for unlisted properties.
Rev W A Rankin closed his sixteen year pastorate at the Warren Presbyterian Church with a farewell sermon on Sunday. Elders decided not to hear new candidates for the vacancy as summer supply plans proceed. Next Sunday Rev J A Maxwell of Titusville will preach May 7. A pew renting sale followed, with most seats already claimed.
My celebrated Bock Beer is on tap in Warren and vicinity. I offer bottled beer for family use and accept telephone orders via Warren Telephone Exchange for prompt attention from my Brewery.
W. H. Simpson & Co. announces a new shop opposite Variety Hall offering gas fixtures iron sinks kitchen boilers water-closets baths sewer pipes and all related articles. Customers are invited to inspect stock and prices before purchasing elsewhere with latest Harper's Bazaar patterns on display.
The Tow Path Road fate to be decided at Warren meeting May 5 with projections of a 75 mile narrow gauge from Erie to Warren via Wattsburg Corry and Sugar Grove. A massive 120000 pound dual end locomotive is built for the Pennsylvania company. Erie Bradford Oil City routes face faster services as lines meet at Corry. Pennsylvania railroad earnings rise in March 1882 but net profit falls. Kane Kane area line progress and Big Level Bradford bonds touted. Pennsylvanian tests sight and hearing for railroad workers using optical and color tools and a ticking watch.
Deputy Supreme President G. W. Brown of Youngsville initiates about a dozen new members into Cornplanter Union No. 65 E A U of Warren. Officers named include Chancellor D. W. Brodhead and President Joseph A. Steele. The order now has over 14,000 members across 450 unions in fifteen states and has paid 89 policies from 24 assessments in three years.
The state military encampment at Lewistown will begin Saturday August 5, not August 19 as originally named. The date change follows the Juniata Valley camp meeting starting on the 16th.
McNett & Co advertises chamber and parlor suits from most expensive to cheapest while George Ball & Co features Nobby neckwear.
The Warren Bottling Works offers Bohemian Liebotshauer Beer praised for taste and family use. Sold by H. Flacke and delivered free within town. orders via telephone promptly attended to. H. Flacke.
The Warren oil district is busier than before with Glade dotted by new rigs. Cherry Grove emerges dating from April with eleven rigs ready. Clarendon, Sheffield, and nearby fields show growing rig counts. April wells listed for Clarendon and surrounding companies show numerous drillings and outputs amid a surge of activity.
A Titusville Herald correspondent from Sheffield reports drilling slows slightly but several wells show strong production. Wetmore & Co. finished a well on lot 408 yielding about 30 barrels, with Nos. 9 and 10 planned. Magee & Horton on Donaldson farm push No. 9 to a big potential, torpedoing expected today, while No. 10 speeds toward the sand. Henry's Mills Porter drills at 1200 feet and Shank Emery & Co. work on lot 407. Numerous leases and timber movements indicate a busy month ahead.
Oil prices steady yet gloomy as oil men watch activity in Allegany and Bradford fields. The Union Pipe Line advances a 3 inch line from Stoneham to Warren while Wayne county tests explore to 1800 feet with limited gains. Bolivar shows declines as a near dry Beers farm hole and a nearby producer’s failure dampen optimism.
The Batcheller and Dorris circus arrives in Warren on May 4 with the largest canvas, a complete show featuring top American and European talent, a diverse menagerie, and the famed Two Headed Wonder Millie Christine at a $25,000 season salary. A grand street parade is described as the finest and most spectacular seen in the country.
D M Gross & Bro have added a large assortment of new carpets and the finest lace curtains to their dry goods stock. Shoppers can find stylish carpets and lace curtains at prices lower than elsewhere in the county. Call on 21m14 D M Gross & Bro for details.
The notice promotes White Lead and ready mixed paints from L. G. Noyes, invites readers to view Melton Spring Overcoats at George Ball & Co, and advertises all grades of wall paper at A. A. Davis & Co.
Butter sales in Jamestown at 22 cents a pound. Erie License Board has 128 licenses issued with 61 applications pending. Firefighter A E Hubbard dies from Parshall House blaze. 145th Pennsylvania Volunteers meet in Erie led by Gen McCreary and Capt Hilton. Oxen weighed 4230 pounds sold by Howard Russell of Kiantone to A S Prather. Burglars target Jamestown Democrat Leader and Warren print shop with little stolen. Mrs Wilard McKinstry dies, mourned by husband and children. Mrs C W Eddy moves millinery store and relocates residence to Chandler Street.
In Warren county master in Chancery C Heydrick reports Tolles and others sue Millspaw and Beaty over 650 acres in Stoneham oil country. The master finds Millspaw and Bugbee forged deeds to defraud Tolles and others. Beaty gets the benefit of the purchase with no clear notice. The decision hinges on fraud in land sales and lease disputes, with potential appeal to higher courts due to the large amount at stake.
Sugar Grove Union School lists pupils with attendance over 95 percent for the past month. Marked stars indicate no tardies. Primary Department includes Josie Nelson Fred Clark Edith Elliott John Green Hellen Elliott and others. Teachers listed for each department. Confectionery promotion for A A Davis & Co.
County notes report diphtheria claims and illness Among local families Little Hayes Barkley dies from the disease and two other boys are sick School closes June 13 Presbyterian sociable hosted by John Hunter May 2 Mrs J Tonkin travels to Kansas Others arrive or depart include G A Reichert John Siggins Maynard Gratsinger Mrs Clark Benner and daughter Dancing school for seniors Ed Clapp and John Love visit Coleman stave mill Ross Gilman Co active Saw 124 hours daily April 29 1882.
Mrs Goodrich and son left for Ithaca last week. Stella Ridelsperger died April 22 at 25 after a long illness, leaving an infant four weeks old. Funeral held April 24 at the M E Church Quaker Hill. Mrs Campbell injured knee cutting kindling with an axe last week. Two wells soon on the Barret farm and timber ready for a Brennan farm rig. April 27 1882.
A group of women organize The Social Club led by Ida Foulkrod as president to fund modest schoolhouse improvements. Members pay five cents per attendee and donate more as they wish to buy curtains and a new door latch. The first weekly social is set at E. B. Eldred’s home with home cured popcorn offered. Notables and locals mentioned attend social events and other town news fill the item.
In Garland on April 20 1882 Manly B Brown married Miss Bertha Boyd both of Eldred Warren. In Warren on April 26 1882 at St Josephs Church Louis F Dreyer wed Miss Mary A Brown both of Warren.
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